Word: pompousity
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...generally on the side of the angels ... It punctures lots of pompous fictions about how the world works." ROWAN WILLIAMS, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the animated sitcom The Simpsons, prompting the TV show's producers to invite him to lend his voice to an upcoming episode...
...genteel Brit, Michael Bramleigh, who, after a head-bump, becomes Goto Schmidt, owner of Dresden's notorious night spot Klub "21." (Both roles are played, with an expert counterfeit of charm, by Brian d'Arcy James.) Goto and his girlfriend Gita Gobel (Emily Skinner) are forever threatened by the pompous Police Commissioner (Imus' man of a thousand voices Rob Bartlett), but even more by his tendency to snap from one personality to the other whenever he gets bopped on the kopf, and to forget one half of his personality when the other half...
...house was only visible by the program. All of the other houses in which scenes were set appeared exactly the same, with one low coffee table serving as the only prop, a makeshift table or chair as necessity required. Nuccio was a fitting Reverend Parris, sufficiently pompous and dense to the point of aggravation. He announced at one point with grandiosity that naturally amused the audience, that he had graduated from Harvard University and was therefore superior to all who surrounded him. During the final scenes his denseness seemed to turn into nervous clamminess so that even...
...prefrosh, I thought I knew Harvard. Privy to its pompous reputation, I quickly decided that I didn’t need to visit. Besides, I’d already heard that the social life paled in comparison to the raging parties at state schools; that students sacrificed Saturday nights to do homework; and that after a lifetime of success and accolades, overachievers often became dismayed to find themselves the little fish in a big pond. I wanted college to be fun, social and, of course, the best four years of my life. Plainly put, I didn’t think...
...jazzed about the money the rich artist could pump into the hospital. (On Rickman's arrival, a nurse mentions the need to perform a "wallet biopsy" to see how he's equipped to pay for his care.) The staff includes eccentric brain surgeon Dr. Hook (Andrew McCarthy) and pompous chief neurologist Dr. Stegman (Bruce Davison). Among the patients is a psychic (Diane Ladd), who, like Rickman, is picking up weird vibes in the halls...